West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-07-01


The above is Senator Da, sons report
of the evidence: he was a member of the
I committee.
Instead Of appearing before the
committee and testifying under oath,
McGraw telegraphed to the Register:
The reported testimony of Roger as
contained i'm the NerS Letter, so far as it
refers to me, is false.
1t would be more satisfactory to say
the least, if McGraw had testified
oath and been cross examined by
the committee
So much for Mr.. McGraw. We
doubt whether it will win public con-
lidence and consolidate the demo-
cratic vote to nominate Mr.. McGraw
for Congress.
o. S. Mckinney is also Young
man and McGraw's Deputy. flour
memory serves us, his salary, paid
by taxpayers, is between two thous-
and twenty-five hundred dollars. He
was a printer and pensioner upon
chance jobs in Fairmont previous to
his partnership with McGraw. In
private employment he might posi-
bly, earn 5000 year.
Shortly after the Camden-Kenna
combine" secured to Mckinney and
McGraw this income, of five or six
thousand dollars, the Grafton Stan
dard was purchased in the name of
Mckinney, but we are informed by
persons in a position to be measure
bly, informed of the truth, that Nc
Graw found most of the money. I'm
der its new management the Stand
ard at once became the most Jealous
and, at the same time, one of the
most helpless advocates Of Mr.. Cam
denis reelection. Here then is
newspaper which it is very safe to
say could not live without the sala-
ries paid by the Federal treasury.
1t is we'll worth our while, therefore,
to observe the methods of this So
called Democratic journal, and the
public may judge how far it is emit
tied to patronage and to what extent
it is worthy of confidence. A single
illustration will serve our purpose.
A citizen of California, now resid-
ING in Washington, having occasion
to consult with Mr.. Mason about
question of law, visited him at his
office in Charlestown. The business
that brought this gentleman to see
Mr.. Mason had no more reference to
politics than the writing will or
the trial of man for murder. Upon
this basis Of facts the McGraw- Nc
Kinney newspaper at Grafton DELHI
erately published as follows:
We have it from reliable source
that Mr.. Blank, one Of the most az
gressive Republican organizers in
the L. 5. was closeted with Mason
at CharlestOwn for several days dur
inc the past week. The inference
from his visit is, that he is arrang-
inc through Mason a scheme where
by Lucas Is to be seated by the Re
publicans in the consideration of his
attempting to MahOnize West Vir-
giuia.
The INFERENCE Internal Reve-
nue. Collector McGraw and his Dep.
uty, editor Mckinney, (both receiv-
inc salaries from the Government
draw from clients visit to the
office of lawyer is, to say the least,
unnatural and unreasonable. But,
since INFERENCES are in order,an
intelligent public is likely to draw
ITS own differences" from the above
paragraph in the Grafton paper
For ourselves it seems most logical
to infer that the proprietOrs of that
paper are both fools and knaves;
fools, because they imagine that
sach nonsense will influence the
popular Judgment; and knaves, be-
cause they publish as true that
which they must know to be false.
There is still another inference that
may be drawn from the paragraph
we have quoted,-it may be inferred
that the prOprietOrs of the Standard
have not the faintest conception of
ths ;pstincts of a gentleman or of
the proprieties Of decent journalism.
1t is submitted to the intelligent
judgment of the Democracy of this
State whether the time has not come
when it is imperatively necessary to
repadiate those politicians who pen
sion upon the public treasury men
like McGraw and Mckinney? 1t is